kerszr Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 I have dual monitors. Which means I can have the marquee displayed on one and the Big Box menu on the other. I want MAME to open on my 2nd screen but it keeps opening up on the 1st. I dont know how to go about doing this. MAME is the only emulator that seems to be doing this. Please, I need some help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 you have to set it in the MAME.ini info can be found here https://docs.mamedev.org/_files/MAME.pdf 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actioncomics Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 is it added here on this screen? if so, can you tell me what the command would be? maybe just add "-screen \\DISPLAY1"? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 No it gets added to the MAME.ini file that is located in the MAME folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 on consideration it may work from there but I've never tried that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actioncomics Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 ok thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadK9 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 (edited) in the mame ini change the following to the monitor you want it on 1/2/3/4 # # OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS # screen \\.\DISPLAY1 Edited September 10, 2018 by MadK9 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actioncomics Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Adding it to the ini file worked. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerszr Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 yeah im having trouble still. how do you do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
actioncomics Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 you have to figure out what your monitor is...but I did this just by trial and error. for a triple monitor set up, monitor numbers start with 0 (primary), 1 (secondary), 2 (third). below is what I did to make it work for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steg Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 I had to use mame64.exe -verbose to work out which monitor I needed: O:\Games\mame>mame64.exe -verbose Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Starting plugin data... Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Attempting load of mame.ini Parsing mame.ini Video: Monitor 65539 = "\\.\DISPLAY4" Video: Monitor 65537 = "\\.\DISPLAY5" (primary) Direct3D: Using Direct3D 9 Physical width 1600, height 1200 Direct3D: Initialize Direct3D: Configuring adapter #1 = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Direct3D: Using dynamic textures Direct3D: YUV format = RGB Direct3D: Max texture size = 16384x16384 Direct3D: Device created at 1600x1200 Direct3D: Initialize HLSL RawInput: APIs detected RawInput: APIs detected RawInput: APIs detected Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squatkylourx Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 I'm sorry, but there is no "Mame.ini". I found "Ui.ini" but that has not the Data to change the monitor. Mame0221b 64bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 10 minutes ago, squatkylourx said: I'm sorry, but there is no "Mame.ini". I found "Ui.ini" but that has not the Data to change the monitor. Mame0221b 64bit Either run Quote mame64.exe -cc to create it, or start without a rom and from the UI choose save configuration option. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHAS Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Not working for me, and I don't know how (or where) to do this verbose thing. Can you guys think in some alternative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) 20 minutes ago, PHAS said: Not working for me, and I don't know how (or where) to do this verbose thing. Can you guys think in some alternative? Right click any MAME game in LB, pick Open MAME. When MAME starts, double click Configure Options, and than double click Save Configuration. You should now have a mame.ini in your MAME directory. You can edit this file manually, or a lot of the settings can be set in the same Configure Options section of Mame. (Just remember to save after making changes) Edited January 23, 2021 by Headrush69 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidLife Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 (edited) Sorry to res this thread, but I am having a simular issue. I have 2 monitors (a marquee screen and game screen), I found the displays by using the verbose command. I edited the .ini file but it doesn't change anything. In my display properties it lists the monitor I want to display the game on as screen 1. But both mame and BigBox see it as screen 2. I am editing the mame.ini file in the main mame diretory with exe file. Any ideas? Edited November 15, 2021 by MidLife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidLife Posted November 16, 2021 Share Posted November 16, 2021 OK, I don't know what the issue was, but I deleted my display drivers, unplugged the 2nd monitor, shut down and restarted and mame now loads on the correct monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghopperii Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 On 9/9/2018 at 8:46 PM, MadK9 said: in the mame ini change the following to the monitor you want it on 1/2/3/4 # # OSD PER-WINDOW VIDEO OPTIONS # screen \\.\DISPLAY1 This worked for me but I had to change the number of screens (numscreens) in the mame.ini also. For some reason MAME defaulted it to 1 screen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rauzzman80 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 i dont know why but none of these work for me... Im using the latest version of mame, .0251 and yea it keeps opening up on my marquee screen instead of my dell 3:4 my marquee is hooked up via hdmi so my pc keeps identifying it as screen 1.. which tells me microsoft is retarded and set up an automatic detect instead of a manual set up option.. im getting pissed off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latin625 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 @Rauzzman80 Mame 251 is wacky as hell. Im having issues too. Try: Windows Key + Shift+ Arrow key (left or right) to force the display to the other monitor. It has worked for me and then it stays there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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